>> Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/23 Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info>: >> One of the ways to improve this is to assign mentors to new committers. >> Mentors don't have to be necessarily related to the particular area >> of committers work. The question is how many current developers >> would have time to accommodate "newbies", but maybe we can work >> towards this idea? >> > I was personally going for something more like assigning reviewers to > MW components, paths, time slots, or some combination thereof. But if > we're gonna have that discussion for real, let's have it in its on > thread :)
Yea, right, sorry for hijack. Changed subject for now. I am not sure that any formal assignement will work esp. taking volunteers into account. I prefer to do "svn log" and see who made last few meaningful commits. In some areas it will be easy - like in the api I am most likely to see "catrope" or "reedy", but there are some forgotten swamps (like some extensions) where only raymond and firends push localization updates. Obviously, I consider it a good practice to talk to someone touch this code earlier (as I did with CentralNotice and I didn't with API). Maybe we lack some forum for this pre-commit exchange (I think some open forum is better than private exchange on mail or even IRC channel). But sometimes things are too trivial to bother *the* mailing list (and then, wikimedia-tech seems to be more likely place since it became more developer-oriented than mediawiki-l). Just to give a not-so-hypothetical example, since I don't like discussing in vain, what about this: Is this okay to fix https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16260 by adding a new [[Message:qsidebar]] that is the same as [[Message:Sidebar]] only accepts EDIT, THISPAGE, CONTEXT, MYPAGES, SPECIALPAGES, TOOLBOX boxes? I see that hartman and dartman did some work there recently, and ashley one clean up about a year ago. //Marcin _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
